Swap Space Problem

[bellskar]

The host is on WHM VPS.
Distro: CentOS 5.5

I am having trouble with No SWAP Space available on the machine. And I want to set it up. I've tried searching a lot but no solution I found specific to this problem. Only some where I found to fix/repare the file system according to my scenario of findings in the machine.

Following is the information till now I have found in the machine while trying to get a fix. But only the deeper I could go and found nothing to resolve.

[~]# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          1024        176        847          0          0          0
-/+ buffers/cache:        176        847
Swap:            0          0          0

I, then, followed a tutorial to create/increase the swap file. Following is what I reached to..
According to the instructions I checked with the command "swapon -s" and got following output

[~]# swapon -s
Filename                                Type            Size    Used    Priority

[~]#

Apparently I didn't see any thing in the above detail. But I continued on as per the tutorial that goes down.

[~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/extraswap bs=1M count=2048
2048+0 records in
2048+0 records out
2147483648 bytes (2.1 GB) copied, 16.5224 seconds, 130 MB/s

[~]# mkswap /extraswap
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 2147479 kB

[~]# swapon /extraswap
swapon: /extraswap: Operation not permitted

Unfortunately, the "swapon" command failed with the error "Operation not permitted". I also tried the above steps after performing "swapoff -a" just to make sure. But it resulted the same output.

I also got some thing about to check with the "fdisk -l". but following is what it resulted

[~]# fdisk -l
cannot open /proc/partitions

[~]#

After getting the above error. I tried to check the file "partitions" in /proc. And I didn't see any "partitions" file there.

[~]# ls /proc
./      15843/  19551/  23993/  26386/  5620/        loadavg  sys/
../     15844/  19552/  24241/  26393/  5816/        locks    sysrq-trigger
1/      15845/  19621/  24362/  26417/  5848/        meminfo  sysvipc/
11556/  15900/  19622/  26071/  26451/  cmdline      modules  uptime
11557/  15960/  19623/  26104/  27952/  cpuinfo      mounts   user_beancounters
15831/  17627/  19624/  26133/  31833/  devices      net/     version
15840/  17691/  22140/  26313/  31834/  filesystems  self     vmstat
15841/  17692/  23765/  26340/  31841/  fs/          stat     vz/
15842/  17741/  23767/  26353/  31842/  kmsg         swaps
[~]#

I am not able to do any thing else to increase the Swap file. I'd really need help for that purpose.

Thanks in advance..
Regards,

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Post the output of fdisk -l and df -h commands here.